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Thursday 20 August 2009

Robert Carlyle: I've turned my back on cinema for new challenge in TV

From the Daily Record...

IT'S ALMOST impossible to think of Robert Carlyle without conjuring the image of Begbie tossing that pint glass into the crowd in Trainspotting.

Great actor that he is, whatever roles he takes, he will forever be associated with the grinning psychopath from the film that rocketed him to global stardom.Since then, of course, he has notched up more hit movies than many American stars can dream of - not bad for a lad from Glasgow's Maryhill.

He's even been a Bond villain and, let's face it, it doesn't get much better than that.

But now the man who can reduce just about anyone to a quivering mess with one angry glare has turned his back on cinema to star in a TV show - a sci-fi TV show. You would be forgiven for thinking we are winding you up.....

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